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observer has told me that not many years ago about fourteen 
pairs nested in the wood. 
The site of the heronry in Muckton Wood, near Louth, 
according to the list in ‘The Zoologist,’ showed signs of re- 
occupation in 1872. Whether or not the birds returned to the 
wood, I cannot say, but a heronry exists in Tothill Wood, some 
three miles further east, which may well be an offshoot of the 
old.colony. Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh has informed me that he 
noticed between twenty and thirty nests in the trees when he 
was shooting the wood last winter, but he has heard that an 
order has gone out that the birds are to be destroyed in the 
interests of trout-fishing. 
It will be seen from the above that, so far as I know, Whe 
existing Lincolnshire Heronries, with approximate numbers of 
nesting birds, are as follows:— Skellingthorpe Wood (seven 
pairs); Evedon Wood, Haverholme (twenty pairs); Rowland 
Plantation, near Appleby Station (twelve pairs) ; Newball Wood 
(seven pairs); and Tothill Wood, near Louth (? twenty pairs). 
Possibly readers of this article may know of other colonies still 
existing within the county boundaries. 
SOMERSET. 
The following notes on five Somerset heronries may be of 
interest, as they probably give an approximate idea of the 
number and size of the colonies of these birds at present exist- 
ing in the county. The most recent notes are the result of 
correspondence between myself and observers on the spot, so 
they should be quite reliable. Other colonies may exist in the 
county, though I think it somewhat unlikely there are any more 
important ones, as, when I was drawing up the account of 
‘ Birds” for the ‘ Victoria History of Somerset,’ my correspond- 
ence with naturalists in various parts of the county brought 
no news of other heronries. 
1. Dulverton.—This heronry consists at the present time of 
about seven or eight pairs, and is situated in Ellar’s Wood. For 
a great many years a colony has existed in the neighbourhood, 
and the birds have repeatediy shifted their quarters. Last April 
I received the following interesting letter on the history of this 
colony from the aged Dr. J. B. Collyns, of Dulverton :—‘‘ A few 
Herons still remain in Hllar’s Wood, a short mile from Dulver- 
